IN EUROPE — BRITAIN. 
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which the new species of Birds are illustrated by Gould, the 
Fossil Mammalia by Owen, and the existing ones by Water- 
house. I cannot, however, refrain from remarking, that Ich- 
thyology, and as I said before, Erpetology, are far from being 
cultivated in Britain so fully as the two superior classes of 
Vertebrate Zoology. 
The United Kingdom is adorned, especially in its manufac- 
turing towns, with zoological museums, more or less complete 
and well arranged. There are also formed (and the taste is 
on the increase,) vivaria of all kinds of animals, in beautifully 
situated gardens, at the head of which are the magnificent 
Zoological Gardens of London, where we have lately heard of 
the birth of a Giraffe, which is being successfully reared. New 
societies which rise in all quarters, and whicli, being confined 
to particular objects, are better adapted than the more com- 
prehensive ones, to the making tranquil observations, contri- 
bute remarkably to a more perfect knowledge of animal 
beings. The extension of zoological science in Britain is 
further advanced by the meetings of the British Association, 
as may be seen in various periodical journals, which are too 
many to enumerate. I will merely mention, that the report of 
Mr. Thompson, on the Zoology of Ireland, is a valuable and 
lucid essay which faithfully exhibits the subject, and seems to 
me worthy of imitation. The union into one of the two best 
magazines of natural history, which took place last year, is 
chiefly owing to the departure for America of Mr. Charles- 
worth, the young editor of one of them.* Science, however, 
will be no loser, if by means of the English privileges of im- 
partiality and freedom of insertion, the surviving journal con- 
tinues to maintain its former reputation. I cannot omit to 
mention the importance of the Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society, although they have been so roughly censured by an 
eminent author. What shall I say of their Transactions, pub- 
lished with so much careful attention and splendour ? Mean- 
time, the Transactions of more ancient origin, such as those of 
the Linnsean, the Wernerian, the Boyal, and other Societies, 
* Mr, Charlesworth has since returned, and is now Curator of the 
Museum of the York Literary and Philosophical Society. — En, 
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